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Security Officials Foil Attempted Explosion in Laghman Province
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) says that police forces in Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
province prevented the blast of a cycle of violence load with explosives.

The ministry said in a blurb Saturday, that gunnies had transported a cycle of violence loaded with explosives to the Alingar district of Laghman province in order to target civilians, but was seized by the security forces.

A Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
ammunition depot in Chahar Burjak district of Nimroz province was also seized, the statement reads.

The statement added, that dozens of mortar and rocket shells were recovered from the depot.

This comes as the Intra-Afghan peace negotiations are ongoing in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, but Afghanistan is evident to War rage and escalation amidst peace talks.
Posted by: trailing wife 2020-10-18
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